Holiday Travel Hijacking Averted - No Snowglobes On Board!

[Duckster]

Try packing this favorite travel souvenir in your carry-on luggage and taking it through an airport security checkpoint this holiday season, and chances are you’ll have to leave it behind.

“Snow globes are not permitted to be carried through security checkpoints,” said Transportation Security Administration spokesman Dwayne Baird.

The reason is that the globes contain liquids, and TSA rules say that only liquids, gels or aerosols in containers of three ounces or less are allowed through security in carry-on bags.

Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2010260025_websnow12.html

I feel so much better now my holiday flight will be snow-free inside the plane.

[kittenblue]

Yeah, well, a huge percentage of our holiday sales at my place of work depends on people buying snowglobes, and we have to remind them of this fact if they mention they are flying. Fortunately the boxes are so big that it’s unlikely they will fit in a carry-on. For a few years there we did a brisk business replacing pocketknives people had lost to the screeners.

[Harmonious_Discord]

Think how much nitroglycerin thy could have in one. The first air turbulence and the plane is coming down in little flakes on our heads.